Border
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Kapka Kassabova returns to the wild borderlands where Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey converge—a mysterious region she knew as a child, when it lay behind the Iron Curtain. This is a landscape of mountains, forests, and rivers where ancient myths still linger and where the recent past casts long shadows.
Through encounters with smugglers, border guards, treasure hunters, and refugees, Kassabova uncovers stories of separation and loss, but also of remarkable resilience. She explores how borders shape the lives of those who live beside them, and how this particular frontier has been crossed by everyone from Thracian tribes to Ottoman armies, from Cold War defectors to today's displaced people.
Part travelogue, part history, part meditation on exile and belonging, this is an extraordinary journey into a haunted, beautiful corner of Europe that remains largely unknown to outsiders.
